Bug#365885: Video playback fails
On Sat, 2006-05-06 at 18:07 +0530, Toufeeq Hussain wrote:
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> > Do other video players show the same results, e.g. xine or vlc?
>
> Yes. I'm able to reproduce the same problem with vlc,xine and totem.
>
> Please note that my screen resolution is 1024 x 768 and the video file
> in question is also encoded at 1024 x 768 using istanbul. The file
> encoding seems to be good as the same file plays fine on Windows using
> vlc. IMHO, the video players seem to maximize while playing this file
> and seem to get a terminate signal from X.
Yes, the X i810 driver returns a BadAlloc error, which means that it
can't allocate the memory for storing the video data for display.
Unfortunately, I can't tell from the information you provided why that
is. May I suggest you submit this upstream at
http://bugs.freedesktop.org, product xorg, component Driver/i810.
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